William Henry Macey | |
Order: | 19th |
Office: | Mayor of Blenheim |
Term Start: | 1903 |
Term End: | 1905 |
Predecessor: | Richard McCallum |
Successor: | Edward Henry Penny |
Birth Date: | 1850 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | Islington, London, England |
Death Place: | Durie Hill, Whanganui, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand |
Restingplace: | Aramoho Cemetery |
William Henry Macey (14 April 1850 – 30 May 1931) was a photographer who served two terms as mayor of Blenheim.[1]
Macey was born in 1850 in Islington, London to William and Elizabeth Macey (née Salmon).[2] Arriving in New Zealand in the year 1857, he soon went to Marlborough where he was apprenticed by photographer William Collie.[3]
Macey's opened his photography studio in Market Place, Blenheim, in 1878, and expanded to Picton and Havelock in 1902.[4] He produced high-end prints, often using silver or gold trim and lettering.[5]